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It was our honor to bring together over 200 leaders across the NationSwell ecosystem in pursuit of Better + Bolder impact.
Explore shared learnings, resources, and moments from the event.
Speaker Directory
We welcomed many of the most cutting-edge and committed leaders in ESG, social impact, philanthropy, and other fields to the NationSwell Summit stage. Use our directory to find and connect with these leaders on LinkedIn.
The NationSwell Library
We were thrilled to see so many guests enjoying the NationSwell Library on site. Explore the list of all the books we provided in the library to add to your own collection.
Insights + Key Learnings
The NationSwell Insights team has distilled learnings from the day into key takeaways from each of our Summit themes.
Quotes from Summit
“The challenges we are working on are difficult, multi-layered and urgent. There is no time to waste, and none of us will be at our best if we’re doing it alone. At a moment that needs our best, how might we stretch further in the direction of the impact we seek?”
Greg Behrman
Founder and CEO, NationSwell
“My call to action is a call to arms: Commit to justice as a matter of faith simply because it is the right thing to do.”
Darrick Hamilton
Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and founding director of the Institute on Race,
Power and Political Economy at The New School
Power and Political Economy at The New School
“I think what’s bigger and bolder is the idea that we have to do more – the acknowledgement not only that what we’ve been doing isn’t enough, but also that this isn’t an individual issue, it’s a policy issue.”
Michael Tubbs
Special Adviser for Economic Mobility and Opportunity to Gov. Gavin Newsom
“Broad-based employee ownership and engagement, while difficult to execute, is wildly promising — it can lead to a radical increase in economic mobility, financial fluency, workforce stability and productivity.”
Pete Stavros
Co-head of Global Private Equity, KKR; Founder and Chairman, Ownership Works
“The complexity in this is enormous, and so part of our work is to try and embrace that complexity.”
TERRI LUDWIG
President, Ballmer Group
“We can change the atmosphere, we can change the world.”
T. Morgan Dixon
Co-founder, GirlTrek
“First and foremost, we have to understand that we’re going to do what we can in our lifetimes and then have to prepare the next generation to continue this work.”
Ruha Benjamin
Author of “Viral Justice,” Princeton Professor of African-American Studies
“Most people in conflict, either they suffer, they attack, or they quit… and attack doesn’t always mean fight, attack can also mean fix.”
Sheila Peluso
Chief HR Officer, Sr Legal Officer and Sr Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management
“Truthfully, there’s no engagement that you have with another human being where your heart is not present, so the question is why do we shield it? Why not show it?”
Jenn Hoos Rothberg
Executive Director, Einhorn Collaborative
“I think it’s okay for us to recognize that we don’t always know the answers to our questions, but it’s important to ask those questions anyway.”
Thea Gay
NationSwell Fellow, youth climate activist
“We’re working on complex, long-lasting, intractable issues, and we need to understand the finite amount of time we have and the unique contributions we can make to others so that we can hand that baton off someday.”
Sid Espinosa
Head of Social Impact at GitHub
Social impact at scale rarely happens overnight. Years of everyday decisions made by organizational leaders operating incrementally and independently reach a certain threshold — and can get stuck, often due to lack of capacity and broader insight.”
Amy Lee
Chief Strategy Officer, NationSwell
“Companies that recognize that the talent we seek lies within their workforces — that if you create the pathways for that talent to move up the ladder, those firms will have an advantage in a tight labor market.”
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Head of Policy + Strategy, The Emes Project
“When we come together, despite not being close or deeply knowing each other, we can course-correct each other by giving honest feedback… We do need a community who can keep us honest.”
Hamdi Ulukaya
CEO + Founder, Chobani;
Founder, the Tent Partnership for Refugees
Founder, the Tent Partnership for Refugees
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About our vendors
From our food and drink to our print materials and the lanyards attached to nametags, the NationSwell team engaged sustainable, local vendors, printers, and catering to live our values in every component of our Summit. We’re thrilled to spotlight these mission-aligned vendors below.
Thank you to our sponsors and partners
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